I .—The ninth letter in the
English, the tenth in the Hebrew alphabet. As a numeral it signifies in both
languages one, and also ten in the Hebrew (see J), in which it
corresponds to the Divine name Jah, the male side, or aspect, of the
hermaphrodite being, or the male-female Adam, of which hovah Jah-hovah)
is the female aspect. It is symbolized by a hand with bent fore-finger, to show
its phallic signification.

Iacchos (Gr.). A synonym of
Bacchus. Mythology mentions three persons so named: they were Greek ideals
adopted later by the Romans. The word Iacchos is stated to be of Phśnician
origin, and to mean “an infant at the breast ”. Many ancient monuments represent
Ceres or Demeter with Bacchus in her arms. One Iacchos was called Theban and
Conqueror, son of Jupiter and Semele; his mother died before his birth and he
was preserved for some time in the thigh of his father; he was killed by the
Titans. Another was son of Jupiter, as a Dragon, and Persephone ; this one was
named Zagrćmus. A third was Iacchos of Eleusis, son of Ceres: he is of
importance because he appeared on the sixth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Some see an analogy between Bacchus and Noah, both cultivators of the Vine, and
patrons of alcoholic excess. [w.w.w.]

Iachus
(Gr.). An Egyptian physician, whose memory, according to Ćlian, was
venerated for long centuries on account of his wonderful occult knowledge.
Iachus is credited with having stopped epidemics simply by certain
fumigations, and cured diseases by making his patients inhale herbs.

Iaho.
Though this name is more fully treated under the word“Yaho” and “Iao”, a few
words of explanation will not be found amiss. Diodorus mentions that the God of
Moses was Iao; but as the latter name denotes a “mystery god”, it cannot
therefore be confused with Iaho or Yaho (q.v.). The Samaritans pronounced it Iabe, Yahva, and the Jews Yaho, and then Jehovah, by change of Masoretic vowels,
an elastic scheme by which any change may be indulged in. But “Jehovah” is a
later invention and invocation, as originally the name was Jah, or Iacchos
(Bacchus). Aristotle shows the ancient Arabs representing Iach (Iacchos) by a
horse, i.e., the horse of the Sun (Dionysus), which followed the
chariot on which Ahura Mazda, the god of the Heavens, daily rode.

Iamblichus (Gr.). A great
Theurgist, mystic, and writer of the third and fourth centuries, a Neo-Platonist
and philosopher, born at Chalcis in Cśle-Syria.
Correct biographies of him have never existed because of the hatred of the
Christians; but that which has been gathered of his life in isolated fragments
from works by impartial pagan and independent writers shows how excellent and
holy was his moral character, and how great his learning. He may be called the
founder of theurgic magic among the Neo-Platonists and the reviver of the
practical mysteries outside of temple or fane. His school was at first distinct
from that of Plotinus and Porphyry, who were strongly against ceremonial magic
and practical theurgy as dangerous, though later he convinced Porphyry of its.
advisability on some occasions, and both master and pupil firmly believed in
theurgy and magic, of which the former is principally the highest and most
efficient mode of communication with one’s Higher Ego, through the medium of
one’s astral body. Theurgic is benevolent magic, and it becomes goetic, or dark
and evil, only when it is used for necromancy or selfish purposes; but such dark
magic has never been practised by any theurgist or philosopher, whose name has
descended to us unspotted by any evil deed. So much was Porphyry (who became the
teacher of Iamblichus in Neo-Platonic philosophy) convinced of this, that though
he himself never practised theurgy, yet he gave instructions for the acquirement
of this sacred science. Thus he says in one of his writings, “Whosoever is
acquainted with the nature of divinely luminousappearances fasmata( knows also on what account it is requisite to abstain from all birds (and
animal food) and especially for him who hastens to be liberated from terrestrial
concerns and to be established with the celestial gods”. (See Select Works
by T. Taylor, p. 159.) Moreover, the same Porphyry mentions in his Life of
Plotinus a priest of Egypt, who, “at the request of a certain friend of
Plotinus, exhibited to him, in the temple of Isis at Rome, the familiar
daimon of that philosopher “. In other words, he produced the theurgic
invocation (see “Theurgist”) by which Egyptian Hierophant or Indian Mahâtma, of
old, could clothe their own or any other person’s astral double with the
appearance of its Higher EGO, or what Bulwer Lytton terms the “ Luminous Self”,
the Augoeides, and confabulate with It. This it is which Iamblichus and
many others, including the medićval Rosicrucans, meant by union with Deity.
Iamblichus wrote many books but only a few of his works are extant, such as his
“Egyptian Mysteries” and a treatise “On Dćmons”, in which he speaks very
severely against any intercourse with them. He was a biographer of Pythagoras
and deeply versed in the system of the latter, and was also learned in the
Chaldean Mysteries. He taught that the One, or universal MONAD,

was the principle of all
unity as well as diversity, or of Homogeneity and Heterogeneity; that the Duad,
or two (“ Principles”), was the intellect, or that which we call Buddhi-Manas;
three, was the Soul (the lower Manas), etc. etc. There is much of the
theosophical in his teachings, and his works on the various kinds of dćmons
(Elementals) are a well of esoteric knowledge for the student. His austerities,
purity of life and earnestness were great. Iamblichus is credited with having
been once levitated ten cubits high from the ground, as are some of the modern
Yogis, and even great mediums.

Iao (Gr.). See Iaho.
The highest god of the Phśnicians the light conceivable only by intellect”, the
physical and spiritual Principle of all things, “the male Essence of Wisdom ”.
It is the ideal Sun light.

Iao Hebdomai (Gr.). The
collective “Seven Heavens” (also angels) according to Irenćus. The mystery-god
of the Gnostics. The same as the Seven Manasa-putras (q.v.) of the
Occultists.
(See also “Yah” and “Yaho”.)

Ibis Worship.
The Ibis, in Egyptian Hab, was sacred to Thoth at Hermopolis. It was called the
messenger of Osiris, for it is the symbol of Wisdom, Discrimination, and Purity,
as it loathes water if it is the least impure. Its usefulness in devouring the
eggs of the crocodiles and serpents was great, and its credentials for divine
honours as a symbol were: (a) its black wings, which related it to primeval
darkness—chaos; and (b) the triangular shape of them—the triangle being the
first geometrical figure and a symbol of the trinitarian mystery. To this day
the Ibis is a sacred bird with some tribes of Kopts who live along the Nile.

Ibn Gebirol.
Solomon Ben Yehudah: a great philosopher and scholar, a Jew by birth, who lived
in the eleventh century in Spain. The same as
Avicenna (q.v.).

Ichchha (Sk.).
Will, or will-power.

Ichchha Sakti
(Sk.).
Will-power; force of desire; one of the occult Forces of nature. That power of
the will which, exercised in occult practices, generates the nerve-currents
necessary to set certain muscles in motion and to paralyze certain others.

Ichthus (Gr.). A Fish: the
symbol of the Fish has been frequently referred to Jesus, the Christ of the New
Testament, partly because the five letters forming the word are the initials of
the Greek phrase, Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter, Jesus Christ
the Saviour, Son of God. Hence his followers in the early Christian centuries
were often called fishes, and drawings of fish are found in the
Catacombs. Compare also the narrative that some of his early disciples were
fishermen, and the assertion

of Jesus― “I will make you
fishers of men”. Note also the Vesica Piscis, a conventional shape for fish in
general, is frequently found enclosing a picture of a Christ, holy virgin, or
saint; it is a long oval with pointed ends, the space marked out by the
intersection of two equal circles, when less than half the area of one. Compare
the Christian female recluse, a Nun—this word is the Chaldee name for fish, and
fish is connected with the worship of Venus, a goddess, and the Roman Catholics
still eat fish on the Dies Veneris or Friday. [w.w.w.]

Ida (Scand.). The
plains of Ida, on which the gods assemble to hold counsel in the Edda.
The field of peace and rest.

Ideos,
in Paracelsus the same as Chaos, or Mysterium Magnum as that philosopher
calls it.

Idises
(Scand.). The same as the Dises, the Fairies and Walkyries, the divine
women in the Norse legends; they were reverenced by the Teutons before the day
of Tacitus, as the latter shows.

Idćic Finger.
An iron finger strongly magnetized and used in the temples for healing purposes.
It produced wonders in that direction, and therefore was said to possess magical
powers.

Idol.
A statue or a picture of a heathen god; or a statue or picture of a Romish
Saint, or a fetish of uncivilized tribes.

Idospati (Sk.).
The same as Narayana or Vishnu; resembling Poseidon in some respects.

Iduna (Scand.). The
goddess of immortal youth. The daughter of Iwaldi, the Dwarf. She is said in the
Edda to have hidden “ life” in the Deep of the Ocean, and when the right time
came, to have restored it to Earth once more. She was the wife of Bragi, the god
of poetry; a most charming myth. Like Heimdal, “born of nine mothers”, Bragi at
his birth rises upon the crest of the wave from the bottom of the sea (see “Bragi”).
He married Iduna, the immortal goddess, who accompanies him to Asgard where
every morning she feeds the gods with the apples of eternal youth and health. (See
Asgard and the Gods.)

Idwatsara (Sk.).
One of the five periods that form the Yuga. This cycle is pre-eminently the
Vedic cycle, which is taken as the basis of calculation for larger cycles.

Ieu.
The “first man”; a Gnostic term used in Pistis-Sophia.

Iezedians or lezidi (Pers.).
This sect came to
Syria from Basrah. They use baptism, believe in the archangels, but reverence
Satan at the

same time. Their prophet
Iezad, who preceded Mahomet by long centuries, taught that a messenger from
heaven would bring them a book written from the eternity.

Ifing (Scand.). The broad
river that divides Asgard, the home of the gods, from that of the Jotuns, the
great and strong magicians. Below Asgard was Midgard, where in the sunny ćther
was built the home of the Light Elves. In their disposition and order of
locality, all these Homes answer to the Deva and other Lokas of the Hindus,
inhabited by the various classes of gods and Asuras.

Igaga (Chald.) Celestial angels,
the same as Archangels.

I.H.S.
This triad of initials stands for the in hoc signo of the alleged vision
of Constantine,
of which, save Eusebius, its author, no one ever knew. I.H.S. is interpreted
Jesus Hominum Salvator, and In hocsigno. It is, however, well
known that the Greek IHS was one of the most ancient names of Bacchus. As Jesus
was never identical with Jehovah, but with his own “Father” (as all of us are),
and had come rather to destroy the worship of Jehovah than to enforce it, as the
Rosicrucians well maintained, the scheme of Eusebius is very transparent. In
hoc signo Victor ens, or the Labarum T (the tau and the
resh) is a very old signum, placed on the foreheads of those who were
just initiated. Kenealy translates it as meaning “he who is initiated into the
Naronic Secret, or the 600, shall be Victor” but it is simply “through this sign
hast thou conquered”; i.e., through the light of Initiation—Lux. (See “Neophyte
and “Naros”.)

Ikhir Bonga.
A “Spirit of the Deep” of the Kolarian tribes.

Ikshwaku (Sk.).
The progenitor of the Solar tribe (the Suryavansas) in India,
and the Son of Vaivaswata Manu, the progenitor of the present human Race.

Ila (Sk.).
Daughter of Vaivaswata Manu; wife of Buddha, the son of Soma; one month a woman
and the other a man by the decree of Saraswati; an allusion to the androgynous
second race. Ila is also Vâch in another aspect.

Ilavriti (Sk.).
A region in the centre of which is placed Mount Meru,
the habitat of the gods.

Ilda Baoth.Lit., “the child from the Egg”, a Gnostic term. He is the creator of our
physical globe (the earth) according to the Gnostic teaching in the Codex
Nazarćus (the Evangel of the Nazarenes and the Ebionites). The latter
identifies him with Jehovah the God of the Jews. Ildabaoth is “the Son of
Darkness” in a bad sense and the father of the six terrestrial “ Stellar”, dark
spirits, the antithesis of the bright Stellar spirits. Their respective abodes
are the seven spheres, the upper

of which begins in the
“middle space”, the region of their mother Sophia Achamôth, and the lower ending
on this earth—the seventh region (See Isis Unveiled, Vol. II., 183.)
Ilda-Baoth is the genius of Saturn, the planet; or rather the evil spirit of its
ruler.

Iliados.
In Paracelsus the same as “Ideos” (q.v.). Primordial matter in the subjective
state.

Illa-ah,
Adam (Heb.). Adam Illa-ah is the celestial, superior Adam, in the Zohar.

Illinus.
One of the gods in the Chaldean Theogony of Damascius.

Ilmatar(Finn.).
The Virgin who falls from heaven into the sea before creation. She is the
“daughter of the air” and the mother of seven Sons (the seven forces in nature).
(See Kalevala, the epic poem of Finland.)

Illusion.
In Occultism everything finite (like the universe and all in it) is called
illusion or maya.

Illuminati (Lat.). The
“Enlightened”, the initiated adepts.

Ilus (Gr.). Primordial
mud or slime; called also Hyle.

Image.
Occultism permits no other image than that of the living image of divine man
(the symbol of Humanity) on earth. The Kabbala teaches that this divine
Image, the copy of the sublime and holy upperImage (the Elohim) has now changed
into another similitude, owing to the development of men’s sinful nature. It is
only the upper divine Image (the Ego) which is the same; the lower (personality)
has changed, and man, now fearing the wild beasts, has grown to bear on his face
the similitude of many of them. (Zohar
I. fol. 71a.) In the early period of Egypt there were no images; but later, as Lenormand says, “In the sanctuaries of Egypt they divided the properties of
nature and consequently of Divinity (the Elohim, or the Egos), into seven
abstract qualities, characterised each by an emblem, which are matter, cohesion,
fluxion, coagulation, accumulation, station and division ”. These were all
attributes symbolized in various images.

Imagination.
In Occultism this is not to be confused with fancy, as it is one of the plastic
powers of the higher Soul, and is the memory of the preceding incarnations,
which, however disfigured by the lower Manas, yet rests always on a ground of
truth.

Imhot-pou or Imhotep (Eg.).
The god of learning (the Greek Imouthes). He was the son of Ptah, and in one
aspect Hermes, as he is represented as imparting wisdom with a book before him.
He is a solar god; lit., “the god of the handsome face “.

In (Chin.). The female
principle of matter, impregnated by Yo, the male ethereal principle, and
precipitated thereafter down into the universe.

Incarnations (Divine)
or Avatars. The Immaculate Conception is as pre-eminently Egyptian as it
is Indian. As the author of Egyptian Belief has it: “It is not the
vulgar, coarse and sensual story as in Greek mythology, but refined, moral and
spiritual “; and again the incarnation idea was found revealed on the wall of a
Theban temple by Samuel Sharpe, who thus analyzes it: “First the god Thoth . . .
as the messenger of the gods, like the Mercury of the Greeks (or the Gabriel of
the first Gospel), tells the maiden queen Mautmes, that she is to
give birth to a son, who is to be king Amunotaph III. Secondly, the god Kneph,
the Spirit . . . . and the goddess Hathor (Nature) both take hold of the queen
by the hands and put into her mouth the character for life, a cross, which is to
be the life of the coming child”, etc., etc. Truly divine incarnation, or the
avatar doctrine, constituted the grandest mystery of every old religious system!

Incas (Peruvian). The
name given to the creative gods in the Peruvian theogony, and later to the
rulers of the country. “The Incas, seven in number have repeopled the
earth after the Deluge ‘, Coste makes them say (I. iv., p. 19). They belonged at
the beginning of the fifth Root-race to a dynasty of divine kings, such
as those of Egypt,
India and Chaldea.

Incubus
(Lat.). Something more real and dangerous than the ordinary meaning given
to the word, viz., that of “nightmare ”. An Incubus is the male
Elemental, and Succuba the female, and these are undeniably the spooks of
medićval demonology, called forth from the invisible regions by human passion
and lust. They are now called “Spirit brides” and “Spirit husbands” among some
benighted Spiritists and spiritual mediums. But these poetical names do not
prevent them in the least being that which they are—Ghools, Vampires and
soulless Elementals; formless centres of Life, devoid of sense; in short,
subjectiveprotoplasms when left alone, but called into a definite
being and form by the creative and diseased imagination of certain mortals. They
were known under every clime as in every age, and the Hindus can tell more than
one terrible tale of the dramas enacted in the life of young students and
mystics by the Pisachas, their name in India.

Individuality.
One of the names given in Theosophy and Occultism to the Human Higher EGO. We
make a distinction between the immortal and divine Ego, and the mortal human Ego
which perishes.

The latter, or
“personality” (personal Ego) survives the dead body only for a time in the Kama
Loka; the Individuality prevails forever.

Indra
(Sk.).
The god of the Firmament, the King of the sidereal gods. A Vedic Deity.

Indrâni
(Sk.).
The female aspect of Indra.

Indriya or Deha Sanyama (Sk.).
The control of the senses in Yoga practice. These are the ten external agents;
the five senses which are used for perception are called Jnana-indriya,
and the five used for action—Karma-indriya. Pancha-indryani means
literally and in its occult sense “the live roots producing life”(eternal). With
the Buddhists, it is the five positive agents producing five supernal qualities.

Induvansa (Sk.).
Also Somavansa or the lunar race (dynasty), from Indu, the
Moon.
(“See “Suryavansa”.)

Indwellers.
A name or the substitute for the right Sanskrit esoteric name, given to our
“inner enemies”, which are seven in the esoteric philosophy. The early Christian
Church called them the “seven capital Sins ‘: the Nazarene Gnostics named them,
the “seven badly disposed Stellars”, and so on. Hindu exoteric teachings speak
only of the “six enemies” and under the term Arishadwarga
enumerate them as follows: (1) Personal desire, lust or any passion (Kâma);
(2) Hatred or malice (Krodha); ( Avarice or cupidity (Lobha); (
Ignorance (Moha); ( Pride or arrogance (Mada); (6) Jealousy, envy
(Matcharya); forgetting the seventh, which is the “unpardonable sin”, and
the worst of all in Occultism.
(See Theosophist, May, 1890, p. 431.)

Ineffable Name.
With the Jews, the substitute for the “mystery name” of their tribal
deity Eh-yeh, “I am”, or Jehovah. The third commandment prohibiting the
using of the latter name “in vain”, the Hebrews substituted for it that of
Adonai or “the Lord”. But the Protestant Christians who, translating
indifferently Jehovah and Elohim—which is also a substitute per se, besides
being an inferior deity name— by the words “Lord” and “God”, have become
in this instance more Catholic than the Pope, and include in the prohibition
both the names. At the present moment, however, neither Jews nor Christians seem
to remember, or so much as suspect, the occult reason why the qualification of
Jehovah or YHVH had become reprehensible; most of the Western Kabbalists also
seem to be unaware of the fact. The truth is, that the name they bring forward
as “ineffable”, is not in the least so. It is the “unpronounceable”, or rather
the name not to be pronounced, if any thing; and this for symbological
reasons. To begin with, the “Ineffable Name” of the true Occultist, is no
name at all, least of all is it that of

Jehovah. The latter
implies, even in its Kabbalistical, esoteric meaning, an androgynous nature,
YHVH, or one of a male and female nature. It is simply Adam and Eve, or man and
woman blended in one, and as now written and pronounced, is itself a substitute.
But the Rabbins do not care to remember the Zoharic admission that YHVH means
“not as I Am written, Am I read” (Zohar, fol. III., 23Oa). One has to
know how to divide the Tetragrammaton ad infinitum before one arrives at
the sound of the truly unpronouncable name of the Jewish mystery-god.
That the Oriental Occultists have their own “Ineffable name” it is hardly
necessary to repeat.

Initiate.
From the Latin Initiatus. The designation of anyone who was received into
and had revealed to him the mysteries and secrets of either Masonry or
Occultism. In times of antiquity, those who had been initiated into the arcane
knowledge taught by the Hierophants of the Mysteries; and in our modern days
those who have been initiated by the adepts of mystic lore into the mysterious
knowledge, which, notwithstanding the lapse of ages, has yet a few real votaries
on earth.

Initiation.
From the same root as the Latin initia, which means the basic or first
principles of any Science. The practice of initiation or admission into the
sacred Mysteries, taught by the Hierophants and learned priests of the Temples,
is one of the most ancient customs. This was practised in every old national
religion. In Europe it was abolished with the fall of the last pagan temple.
There exists at present but one kind of initiation known to the public, namely
that into the Masonic rites. Masonry, however, has no more secrets to give out
or conceal. In the palmy days of old, the Mysteries, according to the greatest
Greek and Roman philosophers, were the most sacred of all solemnities as well as
the most beneficent, and greatly promoted virtue. The Mysteries represented the
passage from mortal life into finite death, and the experiences of the
disembodied Spirit and Soul in the world of subjectivity. In our own day, as the
secret is lost, the candidate passes through sundry meaningless ceremonies and
is initiated into the solar allegory of Hiram Abiff, the “Widow’s Son”.

Inner Man.
An occult term, used to designate the true and immortal Entity in us, not the
outward and mortal form of clay that we call our body. The term applies,
strictly speaking, only to the Higher Ego, the “astral man” being the
appellation of the Double and of Kâma Rupa (q.v.) or the surviving eidolon.

Innocents.
A nick-name given to the Initiates and Kabbalists before the Christian era. The
“Innocents” of
Bethlehem and of Lud (or Lydda) who were put to death by Alexander Janneus, to
the number of

several thousands (B.C.
100, or so), gave rise to the legend of the 40,000 innocent babes murdered by
Herod while searching for the infant Jesus. The first is a little known
historical fact, the second a fable, as sufficiently shown by Renan in his
Vie de Jésus.

Intercosmic gods.
The Planetary Spirits, Dhyan-Chohans, Devas of various degrees of spirituality,
and “Archangels” in general.

Iranian Morals.
The little work called Ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian Morals, compiled
by Mr. Dhunjibhoy Jamsetjee Medhora, a Parsi Theosophist of Bombay, is an
excellent treatise replete with the highest moral teachings, in English and Gujerati, and will acquaint the student better than many volumes with the ethics
of the ancient Iranians.

Irdhi (Sk.).
The synthesis of the ten “supernatural” occult powers in Buddhism and
Brahmanism.

Irkalla (Chald.). The god
of Hades, called by the Babylonians “the country unseen”.

Isarim
(Heb.). The Essenian Initiates.

Ishim (Chald.). The
B’ne-Aleim, the “beautiful sons of god”, the originals and prototypes of the
later
“Fallen Angels”.

Ishmonia (Arab.). The city
near which is buried the so-called “petrified city” in the Desert. Legend speaks
of immense subterranean halls and chambers, passages, and libraries secreted in
them. Arabs dread its neighbourhood after sunset.

Ishtar (Chald.). The
Babylonian Venus, called “the eldest of heaven and earth“, and daughter of Anu,
the god of heaven. She is the goddess of love and beauty. The planet Venus, as
the evening star, is identified with Ishtar, and as the morning star with
Anunit, the goddess of the Akkads. There exists a most remarkable story of her
descent into Hades, on the sixth and seventh Assyrian tiles or tablets
deciphered by the late G. Smith. Any Occultist who reads of her love for Tammuz,
his assassination by Izdubar, the despair of the goddess and her descent in
search of her beloved through the seven gates of Hades, and finally her
liberation from the dark realm, will recognise the beautiful allegory of the
soul in search of the Spirit.

Isiac table.
A true monument of
Egyptian art. It represents the goddess Isis under many of her aspects. The
Jesuit Kircher describes it as a table of copper overlaid with black enamel and
silver incrustations. It was in the possession of Cardinal Bembo, and therefore
called “Tabula Bembina siveMensa Isiaca ”. Under this title it is
described by W. Wynn Westcott, M.B., who gives its “History and Occult
Significance” in an extremely interesting and learned volume (with photographs
and illustrations). The tablet was believed to have been a

votive offering to Isis in one of her
numerous temples. At the sack of Rome
in 1525, it came into the possession of a soldier who sold it to Cardinal Bembo.
Then it passed to the Duke of Mantua in 1630, when it was lost.

Isis.
In Egyptian Issa, the goddess Virgin-Mother; personified nature. In
Egyptian or Koptic Uasari, the female reflection of Uasar or
Osiris. She is the “woman clothed with the sun” of the land
of Chemi.
Isis Latona is the Roman Isis.

Isitwa (Sk.).
The divine Power.

Israel
(Heb.). The Eastern Kabbalists derive the name from Isaral or
Asar, the Sun-God. “Isra-el” signifies “striving with god”: the “sun rising
upon Jacob-Israel ” means the Sun-god Isaral (or Isar-el) striving with, and to
fecundate matter, which has power with “God and with man” and often prevails
over both. Esau, Ćsaou, Asu, is also the Sun. Esau and Jacob, the allegorical
twins, are the emblems of the ever struggling dual principle in nature—good and
evil, darkness and sunlight, and the “ Lord” (Jehovah) is their antetype.
Jacob-Israel is the feminine principle of Esau, as Abel is that of Cain, both
Cain and Esau being the male principle. Hence, like Malach-Iho, the “Lord” Esau
fights with Jacob and prevails not. In Genesis xxxii. the God-Sun first
strives with Jacob, breaks his thigh (a phallic symbol) and yet is
defeated by his terrestrial type—matter; and the Sun-God rises on Jacob and his
thigh in covenant. All these biblical personages, their “Lord God” included,
are types represented in an allegorical sequence. They are types of Life and
Death, Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, of Matter and Spirit in their
synthesis, all these being under their contrasted aspects.

Iswara
(Sk.).
The “Lord” or the personal god—divine Spirit in man.Lit., sovereign
(independent) existence. A title given to Siva and other gods in India.
Siva is also called Iswaradeva, or sovereign deva.

Ithyphallic (Gr.).
Qualification of the gods as males and hermaphrodites, such as the bearded
Venus, Apollo in woman’s clothes, Ammon the generator, the embryonic Ptah, and
so on. Yet the phallus, so
conspicuous and, according to our prim notions, so indecent, in the
Indian and Egyptian religions, was associated in the earliest symbology far more
with another and much purer idea than that of sexual creation. As shown by many
an Orientalist, it expressed resurrection, the rising in life from death.
Even the other meaning had nought indecent in it: “These images only symbolise
in a very expressive manner the creative force of nature, without obscene
intention,” writes Mariette Bey, and adds, “It is but another way to express
celestial generation, which should cause the deceased to

enter into a new life”.
Christians and Europeans are very hard on the phallic symbols of the ancients.
The nude gods and goddesses and their generative emblems and statuary have
secret departments assigned to them in our museums; why then adopt and preserve
the same symbols for Clergy and Laity? The love-feasts in the early Church—its
agapć as pure (or as impure) as the Phallic festivals of the Pagans; the
long priestly robes of the Roman and Greek Churches, and the long hair of the
latter, the holy water sprinklers and the rest, are there to show that Christian
ritualism has preserved in more or less modified forms all the symbolism of old
Egypt. As to the symbolism of a purely feminine nature, we are bound to
confess that in the sight of every impartial archćologist the half nude toilets
of our cultured ladies of Society are far more suggestive of female-sex worship
than are the rows of yoni-shaped lamps, lit along the highways to temples in India.

Iurbo Adunaї.
A Gnostic term, or the compound name for Iao Jehovah, whom the Ophites regarded
as an emanation of their Ilda-Baoth, the Son of Sophia Achamoth—the proud,
ambitious and jealous god, and impure Spirit, whom many of the Gnostic sects
regarded as the god of Moses. “Iurbo is called by the Abortions (the Jews)
Adunai” says the Codex Nazarćus (vol. iii., p.13 The “Abortions” and
Abortives was the nickname given to the Jews by their opponents the
Gnostics.

Iu-Kabar Zivo (Gn.). Known also
as Nebat-Iavar-bar-Iufin-Ifafin, “Lord of the Ćons” in the Nazarene System. He
is the procreator (Emanator) of the seven holy lives (the seven primal
Dhyan Chohans, or Archangels, each representing one of the cardinal Virtues),
and is himself called the third life (third Logos). In the Codex he is
addressed as “the Helm and Vine of the food of life”. Thus, he is
identical with Christ (Christos) who says “I am the trueVine and
my Father is the Husband- man “(John xv. i). It is well known that Christ is
regarded in the Roman Catholic Church, as the “chief of the Ćons”, and also as
Michael “who is like god”. Such was also the belief of the Gnostics.

Iwaldi
(Scand.). The dwarf whose sons fabricated for Odin the magic spear. One
of the subterranean master-smiths who, together with other gnomes, contrived to
make an enchanted sword for the great war-god Cheru. This two-edged-sword
figures in the legend of the Emperor Vitellius, who got it from the god, “to his
own hurt”, according to the oracle of a “wise woman”, neglected it and was
finally killed with it at the foot of the capitol, by a German soldier who had
purloined the weapon. The “sword of the war-god” has a long biography, since it
also re-appears in the half-legendary biography of Attila. Having married
against her will Ildikd, the beautiful daughter of the King of

Burgundy whom he had
slain, his bride gets the magic sword from a mysterious old woman, and with it
kills the King of the Huns.

Izdubar.
A name of a hero in the fragments of Chaldean History and Theogony on the
so-called Assyrian tiles, as read by the late George Smith and others. Smith
seeks to identify Izdubar with Nimrod. Such may or may not be the case; but as
the name of that Babylonian King itself only “appears” as Izduhar, his
identification with the son of Cush may also turn out
more apparent than real. Scholars are but too apt to check their archćological
discoveries by the far later statements found in the Mosaic books, instead of
acting vice versa. “The chosen people” have been fond at all periods of
history of helping themselves to other people’s property. From the appropriation
of the early history of Sargon, King of Akkad, and its wholesale application to
Moses born (if at all) some thousands of years later, down to their “spoiling”
the Egyptians under the direction and divine advice of their Lord God, the whole
Pentateuch seems to be made up of unacknowledged mosaical fragments from
other people’s Scriptures. This ought to have made Assyriologists more cautious;
but as many of these belong to the clerical caste, such coincidences as that of
Sargon affect them very little. One thing is certain Izdubar, or whatever may be
his name, is shown in all the tablets as a mighty giant who towered in size
above all other men as a cedar towers over brushwood—a hunter, according to
cuneiform legends, who contended with, and destroyed the lion, tiger, wild bull,
and buffalo, the most formidable animals.

J
—The tenth letter in the English and Hebrew alphabet, in the latter of which it
is equivalent
to y, and i, and is numerically number 10, the
perfect number (See Jodh and Yodh), or one. (See also “I”.)

Jâbalas (Sk.).
Students of the mystical portion of the White Yajur Veda.

Jachin (Heb.). “In Hebrew
letters IKIN, from the root KUN “to establish”, and the symbolical name of one
of the Pillars at the porch of King Solomon’s Temple”
[ w.w.w.]

The other pillar was
called Boaz, and the two were respectively white and black. They correspond to
several mystic ideas, one of which is that they represent the dual Manas or the
higher and the lower Ego; another connected these two pillars in Slavonian
mysticism with God and the Devil,to the“WHITE” and the “BLACK G0D” or Byeloy
Bog and Tchernoy Bog. (See “Yakin and Boaz” infra).

Jacobites.
A Christian sect in Syria of the VIth cent.
(550) which held that Christ had only one
nature and that confession was not of divine origin. They had secret signs,
passwords and a solemn initiation with mysteries.

Jadoo (Hind.). Sorcery,
black magic, enchantment.

Jadoogar
(Hind.). A Sorcerer, or Wizard.

Jagaddhatri (Sk.).
Substance; the name of “the nurse of the world”, the designation of the power
which carried Krishna and his brother Balarama into Devaki, their mother’s
bosom. A title of Sarasvati and Durga.

Jagad-Yoni (Sk). The womb of
the world; space.

Jagat(Sk.).
The Universe.

Jagan-Natha
(Sk.).
Lit., “Lord of the World”, a title of Vishnu. The great image of Jagan-natha on
its car, commonly pronounced and spelt Jagernath. The idol is that of Vishnu
Krishna. Puri, near the town of Cuttack in Orissa, is the great seat of its
worship; and twice a year an immense number of pilgrims attend the festivals of
the Snâna yâtra and Ratha-âtra During the first, the image is bathed, and during
the second it is placed on a car, between the images of Balarâma the
brother, and Subhadrâ the sister of Krishna and the huge vehicle is

drawn by the devotees, who
deem it felicity to be crushed to death under it.

Jagrata (Sk.).
The waking state of consciousness. When mentioned in Yoga philosophy,
Jagrata-avastha is the waking condition, one of the four states of Pranava
in ascetic practices, as used by the Yogis.

Jâhnavî (Sk.).
A name of Ganga, or the river Ganges.

Jahva Alhim
(Heb.). The name that in Genesis replaces “Alhim”, or Elohim,
the gods. It is used in chapter I., while in
chapter II. the “Lord God” or Jehovah steps in. In Esoteric philosophy and
exoteric tradition, Jahva Alhim (Java Aleim) was the title of the chief
of the Hierophants, who initiated into the good and the evil of this world in
the college of priests known as the Aleim College
in the land of
Gandunya or Babylonia. Tradition and rumour assert, that the chief of the temple
Fo-maїyu, called
Foh-tchou (teacher of Buddhist law), a temple situated in the fastnesses of the
great mount of
Kouenlong-sang (between China and Tibet), teaches once every three years under a
tree called Sung-Mîn-Shű, or the“ Tree of Knowledge and (the tree) of life”, which is the Bo
(Bodhi) tree of Wisdom.

Jaimini (Sk.).
A great sage, a disciple of Vyâsa the transmitter and teacher of the Sama Veda
which as claimed he received from his Guru. He is also the famous founder and
writer of the Pűrva Mimânsâ philosophy.

Jaina Gross.
The same as the “Swastika” (q.v.), “Thor’s hammer” also, or the Hermetic cross.

Jainas (Sk.).
A large religious body in India closely resembling
Buddhism, but who preceded it by long centuries. They claim that Gautama, the
Buddha, was a disciple of one of their Tirtankaras, or Saints. They deny the
authority of the Vedas and the existence of any personal supreme god, but
believe in the eternity of matter, the periodicity of the universe and the
immortality of men’s minds (Manas) as also of that of the animals. An
extremely mystic sect.

Jalarupa (Sk.).
Lit., “water-body, or form”. One of the names of Makâra (the sign capricornus).
It is one of the most occult and mysterious of the Zodiacal signs; it figures on
the banner of Kama, god of love, and is connected with our immortal Egos. (See
Secret Doctrine.)

Jambu-dwipa
(Sk.).
One of the main divisions of the globe, in the Purânic system. It includes
India. Some say that it was a continent,—others an island—or one of the seven
islands (Sapta dwipa) It is “the dominion of Vishnu”. In its astronomical
and mystic sense it is the name of our globe, separated by the plane of
objectivity from the six other globes of our planetary chain.

Jamin (Heb.). The right
side of a man, esteemed the most worthy. Benjamin means “son of the right side”,
i.e., testis. [w.w.w.]

Janaka
(Sk.).
One of the Kings of Mithilâ of the Solar race. He was a great royal sage, and
lived twenty generations before Janaka the father of Sita who was King of Videha.

Jana-loka (Sk.
The world wherein the Munis (the Saints) are supposed to dwell after their
corporeal death (See Purânas). Also a terrestrial locality.

Janârddana (Sk.).
Lit., “the adored of mankind”, a title of Krishna.

Japa (Sk.).
A mystical practice of certain Yogis. It consists in the repetition of various
magical
formulć and mantras.

Jaras
(Sk.).
“Old Age”. The allegorical name of the hunter who killed Krishna by mistake, a name
showing the great ingenuity of the Brahmans and the symbolical character of the
World-Scriptures in general. As Dr. Crucefix, a high mason well says, “to
preserve the occult mysticism of their order from all except their own class,
the priests invented symbols and hieroglyphics to embody sublime truths ”.

Jatayu (Sk.).
The Son of Garuda. The latter is the great cycle, or Mahakalpa symbolized
by the giant bird which served as a steed for Vishnu, and other gods, when
related to space and time. Jatayu is called in the Ramayana “the King of
the feathered tribe”. For defending Sita carried away by Ravana, the giant king
of Lanka, he was killed by him. Jatayu is also called “the king of the
vultures”.

Javidan Khirad (Pers) A work on moral
precepts.

Jayas (Sk.),
The twelve great gods in the Purânas who neglect to create men, and are
therefore, cursed by Brahmâ to be reborn “in every (racial) Manvantara
till the seventh”. Another form or aspect of the
reincarnating Egos.

Jebal Djudi (Arab.). The “Deluge
Mountain” of the Arabic legends. The same as Ararat, and the Babylonian Mount of
Nizir where Xisuthrus landed with his ark.

Jehovah (Heb.).
The Jewish “Deity name J’hovah, is a compound of two words, viz of Jah
(y, i, or j, Yôdh, the tenth letter of the alphabet) and hovah (Hâvah,
or Eve),” says a Kabalistic authority, Mr. J. Ralston Skinner of Cincinnati, U.S.A.
And again, “The word Jehovah, or Jah-Eve, has the primary meaning of existence
or being as male female”. It means Kabalistically the latter, indeed, and
nothing more; and as repeatedly shown is entirely phallic. Thus, verse 26 in the
IVth chapter of Genesis, reads in its disfigured translation . . . .
“then began men to call upon the name of the Lord”, whereas it ought to read

correctly . . . . “then
began men to call themselves by the name of Jah-hovah” or males and
females, which they had become after the separation of sexes. In fact the latter
is described in the same chapter, when Cain (the male or Jah) “rose up against
Abel, his (sister, not) brother and slew him”(spilt his blood, in
the original). Chapter IV of Genesis contains in truth, the allegorical
narrative of that period of anthropological and physiological evolution which is
described in the Secret Doctrine when treating of the third Root race of
mankind. It is followed by Chapter V as a blind; but ought to be
succeeded by Chapter VI, where the Sons of God took as their wives the daughters
of men or of the giants. For this is an allegory hinting at the mystery of the
Divine Egos incarnating in mankind, after which the hitherto senseless races
“became mighty men, . . . men of renown” (v. 4), having acquired minds (manas)
which they had not before.

Jehovah Nissi
(Heb.). The androgyne of Nissi (See “Dionysos”). The Jews worshipped under
this name Bacchus-Osiris, Dio-Nysos, and the multiform Joves of Nyssa,
the Sinai of Moses. Universal tradition shews Bacchus reared in a cave of Nyssa.
Diodorus locates Nysa between Phśnicia and Egypt, and adds, “Osiris was brought
up in Nysa he was son of Zeus and was named from his father (nominative Zeus,
genitive Dios) and the place Dio-nysos”—the Zeus or Jove of Nyssa.

Jerusalem,
Jerosalem (Septuag.)
and Hierosolyma (Vulgate). In Hebrew it is written Yrshlim or “city of
peace”,but the ancient Greeks called it pertinently Hierosalem or
“Secret Salem”, since Jerusalem is a rebirth from Salem of which Melchizedek was
the King-Hierophant, a declared Astrolator and worshipper of the Sun,’“the Most
High” by-the-bye. There also Adoni-Zedek reigned in his turn, and was the last
of its Amorite Sovereigns. He allied himself with four others, and these five
kings went to conquer back Gideon, but (according to Joshua X) came out
of the affray second best. And no wonder, since these five kings were opposed,
not only by Joshua but by the “Lord God”, and by the Sun and the Moon also. On
that day, we read, at the command of the successor of Moses, “the sun stood
still and the moon stayed” (v. 13) for the whole day. No mortal man, king or
yeoman, could withstand, of course, such a shower “of great stones from heaven”
as was cast upon them by the Lord himself . . . . “from Beth-horon unto
Azekah” “and they died” (v. ii). After having died they “fled and hid themselves
in a cave at Makkedah” (v. i6). It appears, however, that such undignified
behaviour in a God received its Karmic punishment afterwards. At different
epochs of history, the Temple of the Jewish Lord was sacked, ruined and burnt (See“Mount
Moriah”)—holy ark of

the covenant, cherubs,
Shekinah and all, but that deity seemed as powerless to protect his property
from desecration as though they were no more stones left in heaven. After Pompey
had taken the Second Temple in 63, B.c.,
and the third one, built by Herod the Great, had been razed to the ground by the
Romans, in 70 A.D., no new temple was allowed to be built in the capital of the
“chosen people” of the Lord. In spite of the Crusades, since the XIIIth century
Jerusalem has belonged to the Mahommedans, and almost every site holy and dear
to the memory of the old Israelites, and also of the Christians, is now covered
by minarets and mosques, Turkish barracks and other monuments of Islam.

Jesod
(Heb.). Foundation; the ninth of the Ten Sephiroth, a masculine active
potency, completing the six which form the Microprosopus. [w.w.w.]

Jetzirah (Heb.). See “Yetzirah”.

Jetzirah,
Sepher; or Book of the Creation. The most occult of all the Kabalistic works now
in the possession of modern mystics. Its alleged origin, of having been written
by Abraham, is of course nonsense; but its intrinsic value is great. It is
composed of six Perakim (chapters), subdivided into thirty-three short Mishnas or Sections; and treats of the evolution of
the Universe on a system of correspondences and numbers. Deity is said therein
to have formed (“created”) the Universe by means of numbers “by thirty-two paths
(or ways) of secret wisdom ”, these ways being made to correspond with the
twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the ten fundamental numbers. These
ten are the primordial numbers whence proceeded the whole Universe, and these
are followed by the twenty-two letters divided into Three Mothers, the seven
double consonants and the twelve simple consonants. He who would well understand
the system is advised to read the excellent little treatise upon SepherJetzirah, by Dr. W. WynnWestcott. (See “Yetzirah”.)

Jhâna (Sk.) or Jnana.
Knowledge; Occult Wisdom.

Jhâna Bhaskara (Sk.).
A work on Asuramâya, the Atlantean astronomer and magician, and other
prehistoric legends.

Jigten Gonpo
(Tib.). A name of Avalokitęswara, or Chenres-Padma-pani, the “Protector
against Evil”.

Jishnu
(Sk.).
“Leader of the Celestial Host”, a title of Indra, who, in the War of the Gods
with the Asuras, led the “host of devas”. He is the “Michael, the leader of the
Archangels” of
India.

Jiva (Sk.).
Life, as the Absolute; the Monad also or “Atma-Buddhi”.

Jivanmukta
(Sk.).
An adept or yogi who has reached the ultimate state of holiness, and separated
himself from matter; a Mahatma, or

Nirvânee,
a “dweller in bliss” and emancipation. Virtually one who has reached Nirvâna
during life.

Jivatma
(Sk.).
The ONE universal life, generally; but also the divine Spirit in Man.

Jnânam (Sk.).
The same as “Gnâna”, etc., the same as “Jhâna” (q.v.).

Jnânendriyas (Sk.).
The five channels of knowledge.

Jnâna Sakti (Sk.).
The power of intellect.

Jörd.
In Northern Germany
the goddess of the Earth, the same as Nerthus and the Scandinavian Freya or
Frigg.

Jotunheim (Scand.). The land
of the Hrimthurses or Frost-giants.

Jotuns (Scand.). The
Titans or giants. Mimir, who taught Odin magic, the “thrice wise”, was a Jotun.

Jul (Scand.). The wheel
of the Sun from whence Yuletide, which was sacred to Freyer, or Pro, the
Sun-god, the ripener of the fields and fruits, admitted later to the circle of
the Ases. As god of sunshine and fruitful harvests he lived in the Home of the
Light Elves.

Jupiter (Lat.).
From the same root as the Greek Zeus, the greatest god of the ancient Greeks and
Romans, adopted also by other nations. His names are among others: (1) Jupiter-Aërios;
(2) Jupiter-Ammon of Egypt ; (3) Jupiter
Bel-Moloch, the Chaldean; (4) Jupiter-Mundus, Deus Mundus, “God of the World”; (5)
Jupiter-Fulgur, “the Fulgurant”, etc.,etc.

Jyotisha (Sk.).
Astronomy and Astrology; one of the Vedângas.

Jyotisham Jyotch
(Sk.).
The “light of lights”, the Supreme Spirit, so called in the Upanishads.

Jyotsna
(Sk.).
Dawn; one of the bodies assumed by Brahmâ the morning twilight.

K.—The
eleventh ]etter in both the English and the Hebrew alphabets. As a numeral it
stands in the latter for 20, and in the former for 250, and with a stroke over
it (K) for 250,000. The Kabalists and the Masons appropriate the word Kodesh or
Kadosh as the name of the Jewish god under this letter.

Ka
(Sk.).
According to Max Muller, the interrogative pronoun “who?”—raised to the dignity
of a deity without cause or reason. Still it has its esoteric significance and
is a name of Brahmâ in his phallic character as generator or Prajâpati (q.v.).

Kabah or
Kaaba (Arab). The name of the famous Mahommedan temple at Mecca,
a great place of pilgrimage. The edifice is not large but very original; of a
cubical form 23 X 24 cubits in length and breadth and 27 cubits high, with only
one aperture on the East side to admit light. In the north-east corner is the
“black stone” of Kaaba, said to have been lowered down direct from heaven and to
have been as white as snow, but subsequently it became black, owing to the sins
of mankind The “white stone”, the reputed tomb of Ismael, is in the north side
and the place of Abraham is to the east. If, as the Mahommedans claim, this
temple was, at the prayer of Adam after his exile, transferred by Allah or
Jehovah direct from Eden down to earth, then the “heathen” may truly claim to
have far exceeded the divine primordial architecture in the beauty of their
edifices.

Kabalist. From
Q B L H, KABALA, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of
“secret science”, one who interprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with
the help of the symbolical Kabala, and explains the real one by these means. The
Tanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about
the beginning of the third century before the Christian era. The books of
Ezekiel, Daniel, Henoch, and the Revelation of St. John, are purely
kabalistical. This secret doctrine is identical with that of Chaldeans, and
includes at the same time much of the Persian wisdom, or “magic”. History
catches glimpses of famous kabalists ever since the eleventh century. The
Medićval ages, and even our own times, have had an enormous number of the most
learned and intellectual men who were students of the Kabala (or Qabbalah, as
some spell it). The most famous among the former were Paracelsus, Henry
Khunrath, Jacob Böhmen, Robert Fludd,

the
two Van Helmonts, the Abbot John Trithemius, Cornelius Agrippa, Cardinal Nicolao
Cusani, Jerome Carden, Pope Sixtus IV., and such Christian scholars as Raymond
Lully, Giovanni Pico de la Mirandola, Guillaume Postel, the great John Reuchlin,
Dr. Henry More, Eugenius Philalethes (Thomas Vaughan), the erudite Jesuit
Athanasius Kircher, Christian Knorr (Baron) von Rosenroth; then Sir Isaac
Newton., Leibniz, Lord Bacon, Spinosa, etc., etc., the list being almost
inexhaustible. As remarked by Mr. Isaac Myer, in his Qabbalah, the ideas of the
Kabalists have largely influenced European literature. “Upon the practical
Qabbalah, the Abbé ,de Villars (nephew of de Montfaucon) in 1670, published his
celebrated satirical novel, ‘The Count de Gabalis’, upon which Pope based his
‘Rape of the Lock’. Qabbalism ran through the Medićval poems, the ‘Romance of
the Rose’, and permeates the writings of Dante.” No two of them, however, agreed
upon the origin of the Kabala, the Zohar, Sepher Yetzirah, etc. Some show
it as coming from the Biblical Patriarchs, Abraham, and even Seth; others from Egypt,
others again from Chaldea. The system is certainly very old; but like all the
rest of systems, whether religious or philosophical, the Kabala is derived
directly from the primeval Secret Doctrine of the East; through the Vedas, the
Upanishads, Orpheus and Thales, Pythagoras and the Egyptians. Whatever its
source, its substratum is at any rate identical with that of all the other
systems from the Book of the Dead down to the later Gnostics. The best
exponents of the Kabala in the Theosophical Society were among the
earliest, Dr. S. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, and Mr. G. Felt; and among the
latest, Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, Mr. S. L. Mac Gregor Mathers (both of the
Rosicrucian College) and a few others. (See “ Qabbalah “.)

Kabalistic Faces.
These are Nephesch, Ruach and Neschamah, or the animal (vital), the Spiritual
and the Divine Souls in man—Body, Soul and Mind.

Kabalah
(Heb.). The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of the middle ages derived
from the older secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which
were combined into a theology after the time of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon.
All the works that fall under the esoteric category are termed Kabalistic.

Kabiri
(Phśn.) or the Kabirim. Deities and very mysterious gods
with the ancient nations, including the Israelites, some of whom—as Terah,
Abram’s father—worshipped them under the name of Teraphim. With the
Christians, however, they are now devils, although the modern Archangels are the
direct transformation of these same Kabiri. In Hebrew the latter name means “the
mighty ones”, Gibborim. At one time all the deities connected with fire—whether
they were divine, infernal or volcanic—were called Kabirian.

Kadosh (Heb.).
Consecrated, holy; also written Kodesh. Something set apart for
temple worship. But between the etymological meaning of the word, and its
subsequent significance in application to the Kadeshim (the “priests” set
apart for certain temple rites)—there is an abyss. The words Kadosh and
Kadeshim are used in II. Kings as rather an opprobrious name, for the
Kadeshuth of the Bible were identical in their office and duties with the
Nautch girls of some Hindu temples. They were Galli, the mutilated priests of
the lascivious rites of Venus Astarte, who lived “by the house of the Lord”.
Curiously enough the terms Kadosh, etc., were appropriated and used- by
several degrees of Masonic knighthood.

Kailasa
(Sk.).
In metaphysics “heaven”, the abode of gods; geographically a mountain range in
the Himalayas, north of the Mansaravâra lake, called also lake Manasa.

Kailem (Heb.). Lit.,
vessels or vehicles; the vases for the source of the Waters of Life ; used of
the Ten Sephiroth, considered as the primeval nuclei of all Kosmic
Forces. Some Kabalists regard them as manifesting in the universe through
twenty-two canals, which are represented by the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew
alphabet, thus making with the Ten Sephiroth thirty-two paths of wisdom. [w. w.
w.]

Kaimarath (Pers.). The last
of the race of the prehuman kings. He is identical with Adam Kadmon. A
fabulous Persian hero.

Kakodćmon (Gr.). The evil
genius as opposed to Agathodćmon the good genius, or deity.
A Gnostic term.

Kala (Sk.).
A measure of time; four hours, a period of thirty Kashthas.

Kala (Sk.).
Time, fate; a cycle and a proper name, or title given to Yama, King of the
nether world and

Kalagni (Sk.).
The flame of time. A divine Being created by Siva, a monster with 1,000 heads. A
title of Siva meaning “the fire of fate”.

Kalahansa
or Hamsa (Sk). A mystic title given to Brahma (or Parabrahman);
means “the swan in and out of time”. Brahmâ
(male) is called Hansa-Vahan, the vehicle of the “Swan”.

Kalavingka (Sk.), also
Kuravikaya and Karanda, etc. “The sweet- voiced bird of immortality
“. Eitel identifies it with cuculus melanoleicus, though the bird itself
is allegorical and non-existent. Its voice is heard at a certain stage of Dhyana
in Yoga practice. It is said to have awakened King Bimbisara and thus saved him
from the sting of a cobra. In its esoteric meaning this sweet-voiced bird is our
Higher Ego.

Kali
(Sk.).
The “black”, now the name of Parvati, the consort of Siva, but originally that
of one of the seven tongues of Agni, the god of fire—“the black, fiery tongue”.
Evil and wickedness.

Kalidasa (Sk.).
The greatest poet and dramatist of India.

Kaliya
(Sk.).
The five-headed serpent killed by Krishna in his childhood. A mystical monster
symbolizing the passions of man—the river or water being a symbol of matter.

Kaliyuga (Sk.).
The fourth, the black or iron age, our present period, the duration of which us
432,000 years. The last of the ages into which the evolutionary period of man is
divided by a series of such ages. It began 3,102 years B.C.
at the moment of Krishna’s death, and the first cycle of 5,ooo years will end
between the years 1897 and 1898.

Kalki Avatar
(Sk.).
The “White Horse Avatar”, which will be the last manvantaric incarnation of
Vishnu, according to the Brahmins; of Maitreya Buddha, agreeably to Northern
Buddhists; of Sosiosh, the last hero and Saviour of the Zoroastrians, as claimed
by Parsis ; and of the “Faithful and True” on the white Horse (Rev. xix.,2 ). In
his future epiphany or tenth avatar, the heavens will open and Vishnu will
appear “seated on a milk-white steed, with a drawn sword blazing like a comet,
for the final destruction of the wicked, the renovation of ‘creation’ and the
‘restoration of purity’”. (Compare Revelation.) This will take place at the end
of the Kaliyuga 427,000 years hence. The latter end of every Yuga is called “the
destruction of the world”, as then the earth changes each time its outward
form, submerging one set of continents and upheaving another set.

Kalluka Bhatta(Sk.).
A commentator of the Hindu Manu Smriti Scriptures; a well-known writer
and historian.

Kalpa
(Sk.).
The period of a mundane revolution, generally a cycle of time, but usually, it
represents a “day” and “night” of Brahmâ, a period of 4,320,000,000 years.

Kamadeva(Sk.).
In the popular notions the god of love, a Visva-deva, in the Hindu Pantheon. As
the Eros of Hesiod, degraded into Cupid by exoteric law, and still more degraded
by a later popular sense attributed to the term, so is Kama a most mysterious
and metaphysical subject. The earlier Vedic description of Kama
alone gives the key-note to what he emblematizes. Kama is the first conscious,
allembracing desire for universal good, love, and for all that
lives and feels, needs help and kindness, the first feeling of infinite tender
compassion and mercy that

arose in the consciousness
of the creative ONE Force, as soon as it came into life and being as a ray from
the ABSOLUTE. Says the Rig Veda, “Desire first arose in IT, which was the
primal germ of mind, and which Sages, searching with their intellect, have
discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects Entity with non-Entity”,
or Manas with pure Atma-Buddhi. There is no idea of sexual love in
the conception.
Kama is pre-eminently the divine desire of creating happiness and love; and it
is only ages later, as mankind began to materialize by anthropomorphization its
grandest ideals into cut and dried dogmas, that Kama
became the power that gratifies desire on the animal plane. This is shown by
what every Veda and some Brahmanas say. In the Atharva Veda, Kama is represented
as the Supreme Deity and Creator. In the Taitarîya Brahmana, he is the child of
Dharma, the god of Law and Justice, of Sraddha and faith. In another account he
springs from the heart of Brahmâ. Others show him born from water, i.e., from
primordial chaos, or the “Deep”. Hence one of his many names, Irâ-ja,
“the water-born”; and Aja, “unborn” ; and Atmabhu or
“Self-existent”. Because of the sign of Makara (Capricornus) on his
banner, he is also called “ Makara Ketu”. The allegory about Siva, the “Great
Yogin ”, reducing Kama to ashes by the fire from his central (or third)
Eye, for inspiring the Mahadeva with thoughts of his wife, while he was
at his devotions—is very suggestive, as it is said that he thereby reduced Kama
to his primeval spiritual form.

Kamadhâtu
(Sk.).
Called also Kamâvatchara, a region including Kâmalôka. In exoteric ideas it is
the first of the Trailâkya—or three regions (applied also to celestial beings)
or seven planes or degrees, each broadly represented by one of the three chief
characteristics; namely, Kama, Rupa and Arupa, or those of desire,
form and formlessness. The first of the Trailokyas, Kamadhâtu, is
thus composed of the earth and the six inferior Devalokas, the earth being
followed by Kamaloka (q.v.). These taken together constitute the seven
degrees of the material world of form and sensuous gratification. The second of
the Trailôkya (or Trilôkya) is called Rupadhâtu or “material form” and is also
composed of seven Lokas (or localities). The third is Arupadhâtu or “immaterial
lokas”. “Locality”, however, is an incorrect word to use in translating the term
dhâtu, which does not mean in some of its special applications a “place” at all.
For instance, Arupadhâtu is a purely subjective world, a “state” rather
than a place. But as the European tongues have no adequate metaphysical terms to
express certain ideas, we can only point out the difficulty.

Kamaloka (Sk.).
The semi-material plane, to us subjective and invisible, where the
disembodied “personalities”, the astral forms, called

Kamarupa remain, until
they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental
impulses that created these eidolons of human and animal passions and desires;
(See “Kamarupa”.) It is the Hades of the ancient Greeks and the Amenti of the
Egyptians, the land
of Silent Shadows; a division of the first group of the Trailôkya. (See “Kamadhâtu”.)

Kamarupa (Sk.).
Metaphysically, and in our esoteric philosophy, it is the subjective form
created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with
things of matter, by all sentient beings, a form which survives the death of
their bodies. After that death three of the seven “principles”—or let us say
planes of senses and consciousness on which the human instincts and ideation act
in turn—viz., the body, its astral prototype and physical vitality,—being of no
further use, remain on earth; the three higher principles, grouped into one,
merge into the state of Devachan (q.v.), in which state the Higher Ego will
remain until the hour for a new reincarnation arrives; and the eidolon of the
ex-Personality is left alone in its new abode. Here, the pale copy of the man
that was, vegetates for a period of time, the duration of which is variable and
according to the element of materiality which is left in it, and which is
determined by the past life of the defunct. Bereft as it is of its higher mind,
spirit and physical senses, if left alone to its own senseless devices, it will
gradually fade out and disintegrate. But, if forcibly drawn back into the
terrestrial sphere whether by the passionate desires and appeals of the
surviving friends or by regular necromantic practices—one of the most pernicious
of which is medium- ship—the “spook” may prevail for a period greatly exceeding
the span of the natural life of its body. Once the Kamarupa has learnt the way
back to living human bodies, it becomes a vampire, feeding on the vitality of
those who are so anxious for its company. In India these eidolons are
called Pisâchas, and are much dreaded, as already explained elsewhere.

Kamea
(Heb.). An amulet, generally a magic square.

Kandu .(Sk.).
A holy sage of the second root-race, a yogi, whom Pramlôcha, a “nymph” sent by
Indra for that purpose, beguiled, and lived with for several centuries. Finally,
the Sage returning to his senses, repudiated and chased her away. Whereupon she
gave birth to a daughter, Mârishâ. The story is in an allegorical fable from the
Purânas.

Kanishka (Sk.).
A King of the Tochari, who flourished when the third Buddhist Synod met in
Kashmir, i.e., about the middle of the last century B.C., a great patron of
Buddhism, he built the finest stűpas or dagobas in Northern India and
Kabulistan.

Kanishthas
(Sk.).
A class of gods which will manifest in the fourteenth or last manvantara of our
world—according to the Hindus.

Kanya
(Sk.).
A virgin or maiden. Kanya Kumârî “the virgin- maiden” is a title of Durga-Kali,
worshipped by the Thugs and Tantrikas.

Kapila Rishi
(Sk.).
A great sage, a great adept of antiquity; the author of the Sankhya philosophy.

Kapilavastu (Sk.).
The birth-place of the Lord Buddha; called “the yellow dwelling”: the capital of
the monarch who was the father of Gautama Buddha.

Karabtanos
(Gr.). The spirit of blind or animal desire; the symbol of Kama-rupa. The
Spirit “without sense or judgment” in the Codex of the Nazarenes. He is the
symbol of matter and stands for the father of the seven spirits of concupiscence
begotten by him on his mother, the “Spiritus” or the Astral Light.

Karam (Sk.).
A great festival in honour of the Sun-Spirit with the Kolarian tribes.

Kârana (Sk.).
Cause (metaphysically).

Kârana Sarîra(Sk.).
The “Causal body”. It is dual in its meaning. Exoterically, it is Avidya,
ignorance, or that which is the cause of the evolution of a human ego and its
reincarnation ; hence the lower Manas esoterically—the causal body or
Kâranopadhi stands in the Taraka Raja yoga as corresponding to Buddhi and the
Higher “ Manas,” or Spiritual Soul.

Karanda (Sk.).
The “sweet-voiced bird,” the same as Kalavingka (q.v.)

Kâranopadhi
(Sk.).
The basis or upadhi of Karana, the “causal soul”. In Taraka Rajayoga, it
corresponds with both Manas and Buddhi. See Table in the Secret
Doctrine, Vol. I, p. 157.

Kardecists.
The followers of the spiritistic system of Allan Kardec, the Frenchman who
founded the modern movement of the Spiritist School. The
Spiritists of France differ from the American and English Spiritualists in that
their “Spirits” teach reincarnation, while those of the United States and Great
Britain denounce this belief as a heretical fallacy and abuse and slander those
who accept it. “When Spirits disagree...”

Karma (Sk.).
Physically, action: metaphysically, the LAW OF RETRIBUTION, the Law of cause and
effect or Ethical Causation. Nemesis, only in one sense, that of bad Karma. It
is the eleventh Nidana in the concatenation of causes and effects in
orthodox Buddhism ; yet it is the power that controls all things, the resultant
of moral action, the meta physical Samskâra, or the moral effect of an
act committed for the

attainment of something
which gratifies a personal desire. There is the Karma of merit and the Karma of
demerit. Karma neither punishes nor rewards, it is simply the one
Universal LAW which guides unerringly, and, so to say, blindly, all other laws
productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causations.
When Buddhism teaches that “Karma is that moral kernel (of any being) which
alone survives death and continues in transmigration ‘ or reincarnation, it
simply means that there remains nought after each Personality but the causes
produced by it ; causes which are undying, i.e., which cannot be eliminated from
the Universe until replaced by their legitimate effects, and wiped out by them,
so to speak, and such causes—unless compensated during the life of the person
who produced them with adequate effects, will follow the reincarnated Ego, and
reach it in its subsequent reincarnation until a harmony between effects and
causes is fully reestablished. No “personality”—a mere bundle of material atoms
and of instinctual and mental characteristics—can of course continue, as such,
in the world of pure Spirit. Only that which is immortal in its very nature and
divine in its essence, namely, the Ego, can exist for ever. And as it is that
Ego which chooses the personality it will inform, after each Devachan, and which
receives through these personalities the effects of the Karmic causes produced,
it is therefore the Ego, that self which is the “moral kernel” referred
to and embodied karma, “which alone survives death.”

Karnak (Eg.). The ruins of
the ancient temples, and palaces which now stand on the emplacement of ancient
Thebes. The most magnificent representatives of the art and skill of the
earliest Egyptians. A few lines quoted from Champollion, Denon and an English
traveller, show most eloquently what these ruins are. Of Karnak
Champollion writes :— “The ground covered by the mass of remaining buildings is
square; and each side measures 1,800 feet. One is astounded and overcome by
the grandeur of the sublime remnants, the prodigality and magnificence of
workmanship to be seen everywhere. No people of ancient or modern times has
conceived the art of architecture upon a scale so sublime, so grandiose as it
existed among the ancient Egyptians; and the imagination, which in Europe soars
far above our porticos, arrests itself and falls powerless at the foot of
the hundred and forty columns of the hypostyle of Karnak! In one of its halls,
the Cathedral of Notre Dame might stand and not touch the ceiling, but be
considered as a small ornament in the centre of the hall.”

Another writer exclaims:
“Courts, halls, gateways, pillars, obelisks, monolithic figures, sculptures,
long rows of sphinxes, are found in such profusion at Karnak,
that the sight is too much for modern compre-

hension.” Says Denon, the
French traveller: “It is hardly possible to believe, after seeing it, in the
reality of the existence of so many buildings collected together on a single
point, in their dimensions, in the resolute perseverance which their
construction required, and in the incalculable expenses of so much magnificence!
It is necessary that the reader should fancy what is before him to be a dream,
as he who views the objects themselves occasionally yields to the doubt whether
he be perfectly awake. . . . There are lakes and mountains within the
periphery of the sanctuary. These two edifices are selected as examples from
a list next to inexhaustible. The whole valley and delta of the Nile, from the cataracts
to the sea, was covered with temples, palaces, tombs, pyramids, obelisks, and
pillars. The execution of the sculptures is beyond praise. The mechanical
perfection with which artists wrought in granite, serpentine, breccia, and
basalt, is wonderful, according to all the experts animals and plants look as
good as natural, and artificial objects are beautifully sculptured; battles by
sea and land, and scenes of domestic life are to be found in all their
bas-reliefs.”

Karnaim
(Heb.). Horned, an attribute of Ashtoreth and Astarte; those horns typify
the male element, and convert the deity into an androgyne. Isis also is at times
horned. Compare also the idea of the Crescent Moon—-symbol of Isis—as horned. [w.w.w.]

Karneios (Gr.). “Apollo
Karneїos,” is evidently an avatar of the Hindu “Krishna
Karna”. Both were Sun-gods; both “Karna” and Karneios meaning “radiant”.
(See the Secret Doctrine II., p. 44. note.)

Karshipta (Mazd.). The holy
bird of Heaven in the Mazdean Scriptures, of which Ahura Mazda says to
Zaratushta that “he recites the Avesta in the language of birds” (Bund.
xix. et seq.). The bird is the symbol of “Soul” of Angel and Deva in every old
religion. It is easy to see, therefore, that this “holy bird” means the divine
Ego of man, or the “Soul”. The same as Karanda (q.v.).

Karshvare
(Zend). The “seven earths” (our septenary chain) over which rule the
Amesha Spenta, the Archangels or Dhyan Chohans of the Parsis. The seven
earths, of which one only, namely Hvanirata—our earth—is known to mortals. The
Earths (esoterically), or seven divisions (exoterically), are our own planetary
chain as in Esoteric Buddhism and the Secret Doctrine. The
doctrine is plainly stated in Fargard XIX., 39, of the Vendidad.

Kartikeya (Sk), or Kartika.
The Indian God of War, son of Siva, born of his seed fallen into the Ganges. He is also the
personification of the power of the Logos. The planet Mars. Kartika is a very
occult personage, a nursling of the Pleiades, and a Kumâra. (See Secret
Doctrine.)

Kasbeck.
The mountain in the Caucasian range where Prometheus was bound.

Kasi
(Sk.).
Another and more ancient name of the holy city of Benares.

Kasina
(Sk.).
A mystic Yoga rite used to free the mind from all agitation and bring the Kamic
element to a dead stand-still.

KâsiKhanda
(Sk.).
A long poem, which forms a part of the Skanda Purâna and contains another
version of the legend of Daksha’s head. Having lost it in an affray, the gods
replaced it with the head of a ram Mekha Shivas, whereas the other
versions describe it as the head of a goat, a substitution which changes the
allegory considerably.

Kasyapa
(Sk.).
A Vedic Sage; in the words of Atharva Veda, “The self-born who sprang from
Time”. Besides being the father of the Adityas headed by Indra, Kasyapa is also
the progenitor of serpents, reptiles, birds and other walking, flying and
creeping beings.

Katha (Sk.) One of the
Upanishads commented upon by Sankarâchârya.

Kaumara (Sk.).
The “Kumara Creation”, the virgin youths who sprang from the body of Brahmâ.

Kauravya (Sk.).
The King of the Nagas (Serpents) in Pâtâla, exoterically a hall. But
esoterically it means something very different. There is a tribe of the Nâgas
in Upper India; Nagal is the name in Mexico of the chief medicine men to
this day, and was that of the chief adepts in the twilight of history; and
finally Patal means the Antipodes and is a name of America. Hence the
story that Arjuna travelled to Pâtŕla, and married Ulupi, the daughter of
the King Kauravya, may he as historical as many others regarded first as fabled
and then found out to be true.

Kayanim (Heb.). Also
written Cunim; the name of certain mystic cakes offered to Ishtar, the
Babylonian Venus. Jeremiah speaks of these Cunim offered to the “Queen of
Heaven”, vii. 18. Nowadays we do not offer the buns, but eat them at Easter. [w.w.w.]

Kavyavahana (Sk.).
The fire of the Pitris.

Kchana
(Sk.).
A second incalculably short: the 90th part or fraction of a thought, the 4,500th
part of a minute, during which from 90 to 100 births and as many deaths occur on
this earth.

Kebar-Zivo (Gnostic). One of
the chief creators in the Codex Nasarćus.

Keshara (Sk.).
“Sky Walker”, i.e., a Yogi who can travel in his astral form.

Kether
(Heb.). The Crown, the highest of the ten Sephiroth; the first of the
Supernal Triad. It corresponds to the Macroprosopus, vast countenance, or Arikh
Anpin, which differentiates into Chokmah and Binah. [w.w.w.]

Ketu(Sk.).
The descending node in astronomy; the tail of the celestial dragon who attacks
the Sun during the eclipses; also a comet or meteor.

Key.
A symbol of universal importance, the emblem of silence among the ancient
nations. Represented on the threshold of the Adytum, a key had a double meaning:
it reminded the candidates of the obligations of silence, and promised the
unlocking of many a hitherto impenetrable mystery to the profane. In the
“Śdipus Coloneus” of Sophocles, the chorus speaks of “the golden key which had
come upon the tongue of the ministering Hierophant in the mysteries of Eleusis”, (1051). “The
priestess of Ceres, according to Callimachus, bore a key as her ensign of
office, and the key was, in the Mysteries of Isis, symbolical of the opening or
disclosing of the heart and conscience before the forty-two assessors of the
dead”.
(R. M. Cyc1općdia).

Khado
(Tib.). Evil female demons in popular folk-lore. In the Esoteric
Philosophy occult and evil Forces of nature. Elementals known in Sanskrit as
Dakini.

Khaldi.
The earliest inhabitants of Chaldea who were first the worshippers of the Moon
god, Deus Lunus, a worship which was brought to them by the great stream of
early Hindu emigration, and later a caste of regular Astrologers and Initiates.

Kha (Sk.).
The same as “Akâsa”.

Khamism.
A name given by the Egyptologists to the ancient language of Egypt.
Khami, also.

Khanda Kâla
(Sk.).
Finite or conditioned time in contradistinction to infinite time, or
eternity—Kala.

Khem (Eg.). The same as
Horus. “The God Khem will avenge his father Osiris”; says a text in a papyrus.

Khepra
(Eg.). An Egyptian god presiding over rebirth and transmigration. He is
represented with a scarabćus instead of a head.

tion of morning. He is the
Theban Harpocrates, according to some. Like Horus he crushes under his foot a
crocodile, emblem of night and darkness or Seb (Sebek) who is Typhon. But in the
inscriptions, he is addressed as “the Healer of diseases and banisher of all
evil”. He is also the “god of the hunt”, and Sir Gardner Wilkinson would see in
him the Egyptian Hercules, probably because the Romans had a god named Consus
who presided over horse races and was therefore called “the concealer of
secrets”. But the latter is a later variant on the Egyptian Khons, who is more
probably an aspect of Horus, as he wears a hawk’s head, carries the whip and
crook of Osiris the tat and the crux ansata.

Khoom (Eg.), or Knooph.
The Soul of the world; a variant of Khnoom.

Khubilkhan
(Mong.), or Shabrong. In Tibet the names given to
the supposed incarnations of Buddha. Elect Saints.

Khunrath,
Henry. A famous Kabalist, chemist and physician born in 1502, initiated into
Theosophy (Rosicrucian) in 1544. He left some excellent Kabalistic works, the
best of which is the “Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom” (1598).

Kimapurushas (Sk.).
Monstrous Devas, half-men, half-horses.

Kings of Edom.
Esoterically, the early, tentative, malformed races of men. Some Kabalists
interpret them as “sparks”, worlds in formation disappearing as soon as formed.

Kinnaras
(Sk.).
Lit., “What men?” Fabulous creatures of the same description as the Kim-purushas,
One of the four classes of beings called “Maharajas”.

Kioo-tche
(Chin.). An astronomical work.

Kirâtarjuniya of Bharavi (Sk.).
A Sanskrit epic, celebrating the strife and prowess of Arjuna with the god Siva
disguised as a forester.

Kiver-Shans
(Chin.). The astral or “Thought Body”.

Kiyun (Heb.). Or the god
Kivan which was worshipped by the Israelites in the wilderness and was probably
identical with Saturn and even with the god Siva. Indeed, as the Zendic H is S
in India (their
“hapta” is “sapta”, etc.), and as the letters K, H, and S, are interchangeable,
Siva may have easily become Kiva and Kivan.

Klesha
(Sk.).
Love of life, but literally “pain and misery”. Cleaving to existence, and almost
the same asKama.

Klikoosha (Russ.). One
possessed by the Evil one. Lit., a “crier out”, a “screamer”, as such
unfortunates are periodically attacked with fits during which they crow like
cocks, neigh, bray and prophesy.

(1) evil spirits, demons;
(2) the shells of dead human beings, not the physical body, but the remnant of
the personality after the spirit has departed; (3) the Elementaries of some
authors. [w.w.w.]

Kneph
(Eg.). Also Cneph and Nef, endowed with the same attributes
as Khem. One of the gods of creative Force, for he is connected with the Mundane
Egg. He is called by Porphyry “the creator of the world”; by Plutarch the
“unmade and eternal deity”; by Eusebius he is identified with the Logos;
and Jamblichus goes so far as almost to identify him with Brahmâ since he says
of him that “this god is intellect itself, intellectually perceiving itself, and
consecrating intellections to itself; and is to beworshipped in
silence”. One form of him, adds Mr. Bonwick “wasAv meaning
flesh. He was criocephalus, with a solar disk on his head, and standing on
the serpent Mehen. In his left hand was a viper, and a cross was in his right.
He was actively engaged in the underworld upon a mission of creation.” Deveria
writes: “His journey to the lower hemisphere appears to symbolise the evolutions
of substances which are born to die and to be reborn”. Thousands of years before
Kardec, Swedenborg, and Darwin appeared, the old Egyptians entertained their
several philosophies. (Eg. Belief and Mod. Thought.)

Koinobi
(Gr.). A sect which lived in Egypt in the early part of
the first Christian century; usually confounded with the Therapeutć.
They passed for magicians.

Kokab (Chald.). The
Kabalistic name associated with the planet Mercury; also the Stellar light.
[w.w.w.]

Kol
(Heb.). A voice, in Hebrew letters QUL. The Voice of the divine. (See “Bath
Kol” and “Vâch”.)
[w.w.w.]

Kols.
One of the tribes in central India, much addicted to
magic. They are considered to he great sorcerers.

Konx-Om-Pax (Gr.). Mystic words
used in the Eleusinian mysteries. It is believed that these words are the Greek
imitation of ancient Egyptian words once used in the secret ceremonies of the
Isiac cult. Several modern authors give fanciful translations, but they are all
only guesses at the truth. [w.w.w.]

Koorgan
(Russ.). An artificial mound, generally an old tomb. Traditions of a
supernatural or magical character are often attached to such mounds.

Koran (Arab.), or
Quran. The sacred Scripture of the Mussulmans, revealed to the Prophet
Mohammed by Allah (god) himself. The revelation differs, however, from that
given by Jehovah to Moses. The Christians abuse the Koran calling it a
hallucination, and the work of

an Arabian impostor.
Whereas, Mohammed preaches in his Scripture the unity of Deity, and renders
honour to the Christian prophet “Issa Ben Yussuf” (Jesus, son of Joseph).
The Koran is a grand poem, replete with ethical teachings proclaiming loudly
Faith, Hope and Charity.

Kosmos
(Gr.). The Universe, as distinguished from the world, which may mean our
globe or earth.

Kounboum (Tib.). The sacred
Tree of Tibet, the “tree of the 10,000 images” as Huc gives it. It grows in an
enclosure on the Monastery lands of the Lamasery of the same name, and is well
cared for. Tradition has it that it grew out of the hair of Tson-ka-pa, who was
buried on that spot. This “Lama” was the great Reformer of the Buddhism of
Tibet, and is regarded as an incarnation of Amita Buddha. In the words of the
Abbé Huc, who lived several months with another missionary named Gabet near this
phenomenal tree: “Each of its leaves, in opening, bears either a letter or a
religious sentence, written in sacred characters, and these letters are, of
their kind, of such a perfection that the type-foundries of Didot contain
nothing to excel them. Open the leaves, which vegetation is about to unroll, and
you will there
discover, on the point of appearing, the letters or the distinct words which are
the marvel of this unique tree! Turn your attention from the leaves of the plant
to the bark of its branches, and new characters will meet your eyes! Do not
allow your interest to flag; raise the layers of this bark, and still OTHER
CHARACTERS will show themselves below those whose beauty had surprised you. For,
do not fancy that these super posed layers repeat the same printing. No, quite
the contrary; for each lamina you lift presents to view its distinct type. How,
then, can we suspect jugglery? I have done my best in that direction to discover
the slightest trace of human trick, and my baffled mind could not retain the
slightest suspicion.” Yet promptly the kind French Abbé suspects the Devil.

Kratudwishas (Sk.).
The enemies of the Sacrifices; the Daityas, Danavas, Kinnaras, etc., etc., all
represented as great ascetics and Yogis. This shows who are really meant. They
were the enemies of religious mummeries and ritualism.

Kravyâd (Sk.).
A flesh-eater; a carnivorous man or animal.

Krisâswas
Sons of (Sk.).
The weapons called Agneyastra. The magical living weapons endowed
with intelligence, spoken of in the Ramayana and elsewhere. An occult allegory.

Krishna (Sk.)..
The most celebrated avatar of Vishnu, the “Saviour” of the Hindus and their most
popular god. He is the- eighth Avatar, the

son of Devaki, and the
nephew of Kansa, the Indian King Herod, who while seeking for him among the
shepherds and cow-herds who concealed him, slew thousands of their newly-born
babes. The story of Krishna’s conception,
birth, and childhood are the exact prototype of the New Testament story. The
missionaries, of course, try to show that the Hindus stole the story of the
Nativity from the early Christians who came to India.

Krita-Yuga(Sk.).
The first of the four Yugas or Ages of the Brahmans; also called Satya-Yuga,
a period lasting 1,728,000 years.

Krittika (Sk.).
The Pleiades. The seven nurses of Karttikiya, the god of War.

Kriyasakti (Gk.). The power of
thought; one of the seven forces of Nature. Creative potency of the Siddhis
(powers) of the full Yogis.

Kronos (Gr.). Saturn. The
God of Boundless Time and of the Cycles.

Krura-lochana (Sk.).
The “evil-eyed”; used of Sani, the Hindu Saturn, the planet.

Kshanti (Sk.).
Patience, one of the Paramîtas of perfection.

Kahatriya (Sk.).
The second of the four castes into which the Hindus were originally divided.

Kshetrajna or Kshetrajneswara
(Sk.).
Embodied spirit, the Conscious Ego in its highest manifestations; the
reincarnating Principle; the “Lord” in us.

Kuch-ha-guf (Heb.). The astral
body of a man. In Franz Lambert it is written “Coach-ha-guf”. But the Hebrew
word is Kuch, meaning vis, “force”, motive origin of the earthy body. [w.w.w.]

Kuklos Anagkęs
(Gr.). Lit., “The Unavoidable Cycle” or the “Circle of Necessity”-. Of
the numerous catacombs in Egypt and Chaldea the most
renowned were the subterranean crypts of Thebes
and Memphis. The former began on the Western side of the Nile extending toward
the Libyan desert, and were known as the serpents’ (Initiated Adepts)
catacombs. It was there that the Sacred Mysteries of the Kuklos Anagkęs
were performed, and the candidates were acquainted with the inexorable laws
traced for every disembodied soul from the beginning of time. These laws were
that every reincarnating Entity, casting away its body should pass from this
life on earth unto another life on a more subjective plane, a state of bliss,
unless the sins of the personality

brought on a complete
separation of the higher from the lower “principles” ; that the “circle of
necessity” or the unavoidable cycle should last a given period (from one
thousand to even three thousand years in a few cases), and that when closed the
Entity should returnto its mummy, i.e., to a new incarnation. The
Egyptian and Chaldean teachings were those of the “Secret Doctrine” of the
Theosophists. The Mexicans had the same. Their demi-god, Votan, is made to
describe in Popol Vu (see de Bourbourg’s work) the ahugero de colubra
which is identical with the “Serpent’s Catacombs”, or passage, adding that
it ran underground and “terminated at the root of heaven”, into which
serpent’s hole, Votan was, admitted because he was himself “a son of the
Serpents”, or a Dragon ofWisdom, i.e., an Initiate. The world
over, the priest-adepts called themselves “Sons of the Dragon” and “Sons of the
Serpent-god”.

Kukkuta Padagiri (Sk.), called
also Gurupadagiri, the “teacher’s mountain”. It is situated about seven
miles from Gaya,
and is famous owing to a persistent report that Arhat Mahâkâsyapa even to this
day dwells in its caves.

Kumâra
(Sk.).
A virgin boy, or young celibate. The first Kumâras are the seven sons of Brahmâ
born out of the limbs of the god, in the so-called ninth creation. It is stated
that the name was given to them owing to their formal refusal to “procreate
their species”, and so they “remained Yogis”, as the legend says.

Kumârabudhi
(Sk.).
An epithet given to the human “Ego”.

Kumâra guha (Sk.).
Lit., “the mysterious, virgin youth”. A title given to Karttikeya owing to his
strange origin.

Kumbhaka (Sk.).
Retention of breath, according to the regulations of the Hatha Yoga system.

Kumbhakarna
(Sk.).
The brother of King Ravana of Lanka, the ravisher of Rama’s wife, Sita. As shown
in the Ramayana, Kumbhakarna under a curse of Brahmâ
slept for six months, and then remained awake one day to fall asleep again, and
so on, for many hundreds of years. He was awakened to take part in the war
between Rama and Ravana, captured Hanuman, but was finally killed himself.

Kundalini Sakti
(Sk.).
The power of life; one of the Forces of Nature; that power that generates a
certain light in those who sit for spiritual and clairvoyant development. It is
a power known only to those who practise concentration and Yoga.

Kunti (Sk.).
The wife of Pandu and the mother of the Pandavas, the heroes and the foes of
their cousins the Kauravas, in the Bhagavad-gita. It is an allegory of
the Spirit-Soul or Buddhi. Some think that

Draupadi, the wife in
common of the five brothers, the Pandavas, is meant to represent Buddhi: but
this is not so, for Draupadi stands for the terrestrial life of the
Personality. As such, we see it made little of, allowed to be insulted and even
taken into slavery by Yudhishthira, the elder of the Pandavas and her
chief lord, who represents the Higher Ego with all its qualifications.

Kurios (Gr.). ‘The Lord,
the Master.

Kurus(Sk.) or Kauravas. The foes of the Pandavas in the Bhagavad
Gita, on the plain of Kurukshetra. This plain is but a few miles from Delhi.

Kusa (Sk.).
A sacred grass used by the ascetics of India, called the grass of
lucky augury. It is very occult.

Kusadwipa (Sk.).
One of the seven islands named Saptadwipa in the Puranas. (See
Secret Doctrine II., p. 404, Note.)

Kusala
(Sk.).
Merit, one of the two chief constituents of Karma.

Kusînara (Sk.).
The city near which Buddha died. It is near Delhi,
though some Orientalists would locate it in Assam.

Kuvera
(Sk.).
God of the Hades, and of wealth like Pluto. The king of the evil demons in the
Hindu Pantheon.

Kwan-shai-yîn
(Chin.). The male logos of the Northern Buddhists and those of China;
the “manifested god”.

Kwan-yin (Chin.). The female
logos, the “Mother of Mercy”.

Kwan-yin-tien (Chin.). The heaven
where Kwan-yin and the other logoi dwell.